How to Force Your Kids to Do Math?

Re:How to Force Your Kids to Do Math? by margalabargala on Monday April 21, 2025 @11:15AM (#43752892)

Talking about a specific ethnicity is not required to be racist in English. If a person were to use the word "Nazi" to describe any person who lives in an area that was Nazi-controlled in 1942, this would be roughly equivalent in terms of the connotation and in terms of the reasonable indignation the recipient might feel.

Furthermore, if you didn't have a specific ethnicity in mind, then when you're going off about "natural education", what you're really saying here is "all groups of people that are part of a group I consider 'uncivilized' are the same".

Or alternately, if ethnicity isn't what you're using as your basis for calling groups of people and their children "uncivilized", what is?

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Re:How to Force Your Kids to Do Math? by lukan on Monday April 21, 2025 @08:19PM (#43757887)

"Or alternately, if ethnicity isn't what you're using as your basis for calling groups of people and their children "uncivilized", what is?"

Culture.

And this debate is equally fascinating and frustrating.

I simply spoke of generic nomadic uncivilised hunters.

And not at all in a bad way, just to illustrate a point. Because to my knowledge yes, nomadic hunting cultures do have similarities. Education seems to be one of those.

Feel free to provide counter examples.

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